WonderCon: Mulder and Scully show up! Chris Carter and Frank Spotnitz, too! And they bring news and footage from X-Files 2!!

Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. So, technically this was the 20th Century Fox panel, but it might has well have been called the Fox and Scully hour. That’s what people wanted to see.
Poor Thai horror remake SHUTTER, all about spirit photography, was stuck before the big X-FILES 2 panel and even the hot Aussie from TRANSFORMERS and Hiro’s sidekick couldn't make much of a difference. You could feel the audience just politely waiting for that panel to end so the X-FILES panel would start.
I’ll give them a little tribute.

SHUTTER

The footage looked a little crappy, although the usage of real life spirit photography (where a ghost or otherwise creepy and unexplainable thing pops up in a photograph) added a decent creep-factor. The trailer had a woman with a creepy long tongue trying to kiss a dude and that was okay… Yeah, that’s about it.

X-FILES 2

This was the first time in the entire run of the convention where the hall seemed to fill up. There were hundreds of people standing on the sides of the hall and an electric buzz going up and down the room as the SHUTTER people left and the few minutes break in-between the two started up.
Then… the trailer.
In a throwback to Howard Hawks’ THE THING (my assumption) a group of FBI agents walk, in a line, on snowy ice. One calls out, “Hold the line, gentlemen! Look left, look right! Hold the line!”
Out in front is a white-haired Billy Connolly muttering to himself, looking very concerned. “It’s here…”
We see dark shoes pushing through the snow and a pan up shows us our first look at Fox Mulder in half a decade. He looks the same.
A woman (I think it might be Scully... maybe Amanda Peet... I didn’t get a clear look at her… she had on one of those fuzzy policewoman’s hats) yells out to the group, “Give him room!”
Connolly slows and then cries out, “It’s here!!!” and the trailer cuts to a woman being dragged across ice at night. Cut to Gillian Anderson turns into frame, red hair flying (getting a loud cheer from the audience). There are helicopters hovering above the ice patch, watching the people below as Connolly races forward to a certain spot.
All this is intercut with sequences from throughout the movie… autopsy scenes (wouldn’t be X-Files without it, right?), Mulder driving and getting hit on his side of the car, Mulder running, Billy Connolly seeming to convulse, blood coming from his eyes, more running, a pissed off looking bald guy with fresh scratch marks on his face and then the FBI on the ice clearing away a spot, all looking down. Then it fades out and JULY 25TH, 2008 fades in.
The people went batshit for it, thousands cheering at once.
I liked the trailer a lot, but I think what I liked about it might turn some other people off. It looked like a classic episode of the series, not entirely filmic, but definitely like I was seeing a preview for next week’s episode of X-FILES.
I also have the same problem with the trailer that I do with the INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL trailer. There’s an iconic nature to Mulder and Scully… the trenchcoats, Scully’s red hair and short figure opposite Mulder’s tall lanky figure… I don’t think either trailer took advantage of the iconic nature of these characters. But that’s a nitpick. The actual footage got me juiced up, so in the end that’s all that matters.
The panel. I got some decent pics of the panel. We had writer Frank Spotnitz, Chris Carter, Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny. Let’s hit some tidbits!

- It’s been 10 years… why will the movie be worth the wait? “Because it’ll scare the pants off you,” says Carter. “Because you’ll get to see Mulder and Scully again in a whole new way.” The whole place cheers again. “That’s why.”
- More X-FILES movies? Chris Carter: “Right away.”
- Gillian had a bad first couple of days at the beginning of the movie. She thought it was going to be easy to step back into the role, but she said she just sucked for the first 48 hours. She said it was only two scenes and she hopes that it’ll all kind of dissolve into the rest of the movie. Duchovny added, “Maybe you should tell them which scenes you sucked in.” Throughout the whole panel their back and forth was pure Mulder and Scully… he was light-hearted and there was a kind of flirt to it. It was pretty sweet.
- Getting back to it. Gillian had trouble (she had trained herself not to act like Scully in other performances for nearly 10 years and so her brain resisted going back) and so did Duchovny (he said the instinct for any actor is to improvise and roll with a character, but you can’t do that so much with one with such a huge back history already). What about Carter? Surprisingly easy. “Writing the names Mulder and Scully, which I hadn’t written for 6 years, was the most natural keyboard stroke you could imagine.”
- Mark Snow WILL score the film.
- What about the pre-9/11 Lone Gunmen episode about the plane flying into the WTC? Carter: “I’m not going to touch that one.” And hand it off to Frank. “We were just looking for the most awful crime we could imagine.” He also said that he was stricken when it happened, thinking some crackpot had taken inspiration from the show, but was let off the hook when it was revealed that the 9/11 plan had existed long before the show aired.
- Chris Carter: “I always saw THE X-FILES as a search for God.” No particular religion, but Mulder’s poster “I Want To Believe” says it all.

- They’re still shooting the film… in fact, they flew from shooting all night and stayed awake to come talk to the group.
- Duchovny puts a lot of emotional weight into the Mulder/Scully scenes because he views them as the heart of the movie.
- Amanda Peet plays an FBI special agent named Dakota Whitney and Billy Connolly “plays a man with very long hair.” – Chris Carter
- What subject would you like to have explored in the series. Gillian: “ I always thought that Mulder should… I don’t think we ever did this… but auto-erotic asphyxiation.” “That was the way I was going to die, that was the way Mulder was going to die… Chris?”
- Why not continue the story arc? “When we did the first movie we had an ongoing TV series, so we had to be true to the series and the mythology arc. So, that movie functioned as sort of a big version of the television series. We didn’t have that problem this time. So, we have a chance to do what I would consider to be a really big screen stand-alone movie.”
- Gillian’s favorite episode is BAD BLOOD, which was brought up many times by Duchovny. “She loves Bad Blood… every day it’s ‘Bad Blood-Bad Blood- Bad Blood!’”

- The sequel was made because Gillian and David wanted to make it. Fox came to Chris and said, “Let’s do a movie.” Then a lawsuit stopped that and then sometime later the studio called up Carter again and said, “It’s either now or never.” He asked the actors and they said, “Let’s do it now.”
- An audience member brings up the end of the show bringing up the date 2012 and if that will carry over into the movie. Gillian laughed and said, “That’s still 4 years away!” Carter was quiet, then said “We’ve talked about it and we want to be true to the series and the mythology, but we wanted to make sure we made the best movies we can and do what feels right, like we’ve always done. Having said that, that 2012 date is looming in our minds.” Cryptic…

- Then a dude dressed up as Link asked an awkward question. “What do you like to believe?” Chris Carter asks the guy, “Can I ask you a question? Are you from Sherwood Forrest?” Link laughs and Duchovny said, “I believe in that.” Tons of laughs… but it gets better. He asks, “Who are you dressed as?” “Link.” Cheers and laughs from the audience. Duchovny looks at the dude for a full 5 seconds or so then goes, “Who?” At this point Gillian breaks in and goes, “Is this a fetish?” Laughs and a mumbled something about the internet from Link. Then an awkward silent pause and Gillian asks David, “What do you believe in?” And David says, “I thought we had circumvented that…”
- Will Krycek return? Audience member, “I know he’s lost arms… but is he really dead or will he be back?” Duchovny interjects, “He’s got that tea bag dipping hand…” then imitates it for a long time. “I can go all day!” Carter: “We are keeping a secret and I think you’ll all appreciate we are… about who all is going to appear in the movie, besides David and Gillian, of course… So, I’ll just say to you… nobody’s really ever dead in The X-Files.”

I can’t tell you guys how big the audience was for this. I think you’re going to see all these closeted X-Philes come out and freak everybody out come July. The panel was great, everybody was laid back and funny. They left saying that they feel vindicated with the huge audience and reception. They believed the fans were still out there, now they know they are.
Can’t wait to see Mulder and Scully again!
-Quint
quint@aintitcool.com

The trailer leaked... but for those not awake at the asscrack of dawn and who miss it when Fox legal sends their hounds after everybody who even looked at it, this'll be left over... like a transcript of what was...

Sorry, couldn't resist it. Back to the topic... hopefully X-Files 2 will be more than the first movie. Though I don't hate the first one, I can't say it went anywhere. Fingers crossed that this one does!!

I'm very pleased at that trailer. I agree with Quint. It really got those juices flowing. The very look of it got me excited. And it didn't give anything away. We only got a glimpse of what's to be. Not like those retards who put the whole premise and outcome into two minutes, killing every urge to see the damn movie! I'm rambling, but I'm so fucking happy! X-Files! Oh and fuck all haters. Fuck you all in advance! You have no sense of loyalty and you use the internet to hide your inadequacies and appear superior amidst your unknown and non-caring peers. Go back to your bestiality porn and leave this post alone! X-Files rules!

Mulder and Scully are once followed by a Cops camera crew. This time, in the year 2012. They bust some 'greys' for making meth, nab some Mayan spirits drinking n driving with pot and meth in the car, harass some inbred mutant family fighting in the house, shoeless n shirtless....the usual.

I thought the alien conspiricy was boring as heck.
episodes like 'toomes' 'darkness falls' were my favorites that's why I'm looking forward to this movie. chris carter has seen sense and gone back to basics.

Can't wait for this. Recently watched the entire series in a couple of months, yeah the last 2 seasons were pretty awful but I think I must have missed a few seasons before that first time round- classic telly till season 8. I had it in my head that it kind of lost it after the film.
I liked the funny episodes alot more the second time round, I always thought they were a waste of an episode when I was an angsty teenager. Me and the Mrs used to watch Supernatural even though we both appreciated it was cack, now after watching X files again we can't even do that - Scary just got stupid.

and i don't think i could choose. there's a couple runs in season 3, 4 and 5 that are unbelievable. i love the episode where the day endlessly repeats. i have a soft spot for one of the early season 7 episodes in the fast food restaurant. the vampire episode. X-Cops. the season one finale (was that a baby fucking alien?!?!) but as much as i love the show i must admit i've never been able to watch every season 9 episode. i have the dvds, i've tried a few times, but i just can't do it. not because of some insane loyalty to mulder and skully (i really like season 8, probably more than most), but just because... it's just not that good.

I was looking forward to this after the stills posted in December but now my blood is surging. YES! YES!!! They're back! And Carter says more movies on the way! I may have to go take a cold shower after this!

And what a great call on Bad Blood- x-files was great when it was poking fun at itself. I'd put Arcadia up there as one of my favorites too (where Mulder and Scully go undercover as the Petri's). The Anasazi 2 parter was also fantastic.
And this was just so well done:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QNX8NtMClU&feature=related

Humbug, Clyde bruckman, Bad Blood, Home(the peacock brothers and their mother who lived under the bed). I saw Gillian at the '98 New York X-files convention. She was very nervous for some reason but warmed up nicely as the show progressed. Very beautiful redhead.

and any male who says otherwise should really sit down and think long and hard about their sexuality. Forget about 3 on the finger scale, I'd cut my arm off if God would let me fuck her!!!! Oh.... and I'm looking forward to the movie too.

I hope the excitement for this extends to non-geeks. I think Quint's right when he says Mulder and Scully are iconic characters, I hope the rest of the world feels the same way. I'm looking forward to seeing how their relationship has progressed since the end of the show.

Duchovny has his own show called Californication, which he just won some sort of award for (Golden Globe or something). I believe Anderson has been working the stage in England and among her other roles she starred in an adaptation of Bleak House and, more recently, The Last King of Scotland, which was pretty popular and won a few awards itself (although none for Anderson). They are consistently working and obviously making a good deal of money from X-Files residuals. I don't think they would even take the roles unless they felt they were well enough established outside of The X-Files.

Okay, I know I'm going to sound like Prince Charles caught on an MI5 wiretap whispering dirty talk to Camilla Parker Bowles, but I wanna be her human shampoo!
My god that woman is beauteous. She just gets better looking as she gets older. Not to mention being a damn fine actress. Why aren't the top directors licking this woman's dainty and pulchritudinous feet...begging her to star in their films? David Duchovney got that song written about him. Well, Gillian should have a whole bloody album!

I want to believe, but I'm going to approach X Files 2 with caution, and wait for the reviews. Like most people, I loved the first three seasons or so. And like most people, I abandoned it when it became clear that the writers were just spinning their wheels. Carter did the same thing with Millennium, which in it's third season flatly contradicted a lot seasons one and two. What can I say? I don't trust his writing. In an age where shows like Lost and Battlestar Galactica show what mature thoughtful science fiction drama can achieve, X Files seems like a step back.

There are references to the overall demon mythology from the first two seasons, but the flashbacks before each episode does well enough to get ya up to speed. Like X-files, the non-mythology installments are where it's at, and this season, that's been the majority. Hell, there was a episode a couple weeks back that had the old Groundhog Day premise that Star Trek ran in the ground, and they made it tolerable.

Is it a given this is taking place in the past? If so, I hope Cancer man is in it. It doesn't have to be about aliens for him to be manipulating events ominously in the background. They sure finished this movie quick! I assume they did because of Gillian's hair. I can't believe Carter wants to do a movie about the alien colonization. This is gonna be crazy.

There is a certain iconography that has to be respected and featured in trailers for properties like this, a sense of awe and wonder that modern trailers have often neglected. Honestly, true fans/geeks should be designing, or at least focus grouped, on the trailers. Rambo was another example, not too iconic, also most trailers these days give you too much of the film (lets not see Two-Face until we pay the money to see him on screen!)

I always wanted that scene where Mulder kidnapped a gray to be real. It would of been cool to have him communicate to one telepathically rather then those ugly bounty hunter aliens. It sucked he never really did so during the series even when he was abducted.

Instead of just tracking down a demon that killed their mother and wrecked their normal family life, Season three is focused on a choice Jensen Ackle's Dean made in the season two finale, one that makes you question where the show might be headed, but gives it more weight than previous years. <br><br>It's mythology does not drag on like X-Files, and Lost, nor does it keep piling on more questions that may or may not be answered.

These guys were so awesome, I was sitting next to someone who was just as stoked as I was, we kept looking at our watches during shutter saying please hurry up, I was so happy I got to ask my question. Btw, Gillian Anderson looks HOTTER then ever!

During the first season, when I was a teenager, I came in and saw him watching it. I'm like, "What's going on? Why did that guy do that?" And he was all grumpy and said, "You had to have seen the first part." I thought he was just being a jerk (which he probably was), but after I saw a few episodes, I realized he was correct. The first full episode I saw was the first Eugene Victor Tooms one, alone in a large house. Scared the crap out of me, even more than Young Frankenstein did. As for the two actors, Anderson's wisely plugged away at non-mainstream roles, while Duchovny has done nothing. I'm guessing he thought Mulder would launch him into a thriving movie career, but he's forever Mulder. I'm guessing that he was eager to do this movie just to get himself back into the mainstream (his new show has gotten buzz, but it hasn't exactly set the world on fire). And I actually stopped watching the X-Files after about season three, so I guess I should shut up and stop pretending to be smart.

I'm more excited about X Files 2 than any other movie this year. The first film holds up so well. It's like Parallex View & All The President's Men with Aliens. Infact it's a shame they had to include the show mythology in the first film. I've got complete faith in Chris Carter and his team. Can't wait!

Seriously...how about bringing back *X-Files* for a 13 episode series for F/X? Then it can be grittier than when it was on Fox proper. Even if it were on basic cable like that, it would be far more successful than that JJ Abrams rip-off that is currently in development.

This was a great panel and there was clearly a lot of love for everyone on the panel, especially Anderson and Duchovny. (duh!) They got not one, but two very long standing ovations by the audience. (something that no one else got during the day, that I saw) Yeah, I think Fox clearly knew what the audience was there for, so they changed the order of the original line-up, and put XF2 after Shutter. People were polite, and enthusiastic for Ando during that panel, but clearly everyone, myself included, were impatient for the REAL show to begin. (If the Shutter panel had gone on one minute longer, I sincerely think the audience would have rioted!) I love that everyone from XF came in directly from shooting the movie. Chris Carter claimed that he'd had "about 15 minutes of sleep in the last 24 hours." Everyone was just so cool, professional, funny and charming and it was a very special treat for the fans. Kudos and thanks to all involved! Now, please just make a good movie!

What I was going to say, was that Supernatural uses classic 70's AOR, rock and roll for the soundtrack, NOT punk rock, as you erroneously stated, Ashoko. And I love Supernatural, BTW. Is it perfect? No. But it's a damn fine ride: funny, scary and the best genre show of it's ilk since the hey-day of The X-Files. (sorry, to be singling you out today Ashoko, but you are clearly mistaken about some of your suppositions about genre TV!)

...So a remake can only improve things. Or be worse, but that would be pretty hard if you put some minimal effort in. The X Files trailer didn't really feel like anything. Similar to Indie Jones. Just a bunch of shots from the movie. It's nice to see them again, but the trailer just feels like a reel. You don't really need to pimp properties like these.

Rocky, Rambo, Die Hard, Indiana Jones and such. I'm not knocking those movie, I'm just saying that it's been ten years since the last movie and six years since the TV Show ended. I think it's a nice moment in time to bring back the franchise. Not too long where people really don't care and not too soon so that the bad taste of the last season still lingers. <p>
Oh, and the first movie made almost $190 million worldwide. Not too shabby.

Seriously, check it out. It's not a perfect show, but it's very fun and fairly scary, with good SFX and a very good mythology arc. Sure, some of the "monster-of-the-week" plots are "borrowed" from other genre movies and TV shows, and you can usually figure out where they're going, plot-wise, but it's very enjoyable. (lots of pop-cult, post-mod humor) And the mythology stuff doesn't string you along: you get answers, pay-off and resolution, unlike, say, The X-Files. (And they have a hot and sexy "girl-of-the-week" in every episode!) I really like the classic, AOR rock and roll songs. They must be paying a small fortune for the songs performed by the actual artists, instead of using some cheesy, cover-band rip-offs. Season 2 is where it really starts to gel, and Season 3 has been pretty kick-ass, so far!

but I got so frustrated with the mythology stuff, and I stopped watching after Duchovny left the show. The first movie was totally lame, and completely superfluous to the rest of the mythology. Seriously, NOTHING was added to the main plot of the show. You don't even have to watch the movie at all, just the TV show, and you would not have missed ANY vital plot info. The movie production was too rushed, (Carter admits as much during the Wondercon panel) squeezed haphazardly in between two seasons of the TV show. And I, like many people who watched the movie, have one burning question: just how the hell DID M&S get off of Antarctica? So, let's hope XF2 is a really great "monster-of-the-week" X-Files movie, one that completely ignores any lingering residue of the mythology from the TV show. Been there, done that, already!

John Shiban is a writer and Producer in it. When I first was it, it reminded me of XFiles Monster of the Week style.
And that Tall Tales episode reminded me so much of Bad Blood.
It is a very good series.

Ha! Sounds funny. No, I missed those eps, I guess. After the movie came out I really only watched one more season, and then the absolute "final" episode, where CSM "dies" in a fiery explosion. ("dies" is in quotes because, as Chris Carter said at the Wondercon panel, "no one really dies in The X-Files.")

I never really watched the show when it was on cause I was young and it scared the bejeebus out of me, but my wife was a HUGE HUGE fan so she got me watching it and now it's my favorite show of all time. Needless to say, after Dark Knight this is my most anticipated movie of the year, hands down. SO FUCKING EXCITED!

X-Files 2, Indy, Dark Knight, Ironman, Wall-E, lots of potential for greatness. I'm definitely looking more forward to this summer's lineup than last year's.
The X-Files 2 will open big. The show has had several years to pull in new fans with the DVDs and despite the last couple of seasons, it IS one of the best sci-fi shows ever aired. The fans will come back and if they market it as a straight thriller without the mythology baggage they will get new viewers too.

one of the most underrated shows on television... sure it airs on the CW, where everyone's a little too good looking and whose audience tends to lean towards fourteen year old girls, but creator Eric Kripke has crafted a fucking gem that no one knows exists. the first five or six season 1 episodes are entertaining but pretty basic, but the show kicks into high fuckin gear at episode 8 (Home) and never looks back. it airs after shit-fest smallville (a show i used to enjoy but now is an honest to god chore) and if you pick up the first two seasons on dvd, i guaran-fucking-tee you'll love it. shit, if i knew you personally i'd probably reimberse you if you didn't like it. that's how much i back that show. it's a shame Herc over in the tv section gave up on it so soon, because it would be right up the alley of most folks that frequent here. please, check it out from the start, give it ten episodes.it really is like watching the x-files in its prime, with its own mythology. jensen ackles is fantastic and jeff morgan, who plays the boys pops, kicks unholy ass. jim beaver is a recurring character, you may remember him as Mr. Ellsworth on Deadwood... the writing is ridiculously sharp, check out the usual suspects in season 2 guest starring linda blair, or the episode where the guys are locked in a bank with a shape shifter or, shit, the last two new episodes were fucking awesome. please, for anyone still reading this talkback, do this show a solid and check it out. thanks

Charlie Murphy - With you on SUPERNATURAL, that show surprised me in season 1 with how well made it was, and the backstory gets better and more complex by the season. God knows how Season 3 is going to play out, but damn if it isn't some great X-FILES-alike shit! And count those X-FILES alumni getting in on the SUPERNATURAL production staff... Great, great show.<P>
But does anyone remember FREAKYLINKS? That show had some mad X-FILES vibes to it, but was also irreverent and funny as hell, and Ethan Embry was, frankly, fucking fantastic in it. And Lisa Sheridan, who should've been the next Gillian Anderson / the first Evangeline Lilly! Fucking goooooooorgeous! FREAKYLINKS was a tight, thoughtful, well-written, witty, engaging, kick-ass little show that, if it's not at least revived from the dead (which it won't be, as we live in a world where fucking GLOBAL FREQUENCY wasn't even picked up, after that fucking PERFECT pilot, so FUCK YOU WB!!!) SHOULD AT LEAST BE AVAILABLE ON FUCKING DVD!!! GET IT IN GEAR, STUDIO FUCKERS!!!

if they're giving me a good end for X-Files2, i might be up to it.
So: gimme an Ending that doesn't say: All that happened in the Series before wasn't a big useless shit, like the First Movie did(Luckily, i've never gone to Cinema for that, but i watched it on TV, but got really pissed about that Ending, rendering the whole Series totally useless)

Not only does it have an X-Files vibe to it, but also a Kolchak one too. They even paid tribute to it when they had to battle the Indian monster, although it wasn't as scary of a monster as it was back on Kolchak.

Yeah, I know, never gonna happen, but still a Frank Black film to tie off the character and series would have been pretty sweet. Then again, how many of us thought this was never gonna happen, so you never know I guess...<p>Oh, and yeah, Gillian does look good...

My friends gave me the collector's edition for Christmas, and I'm just now about halfway through season 8, which has its flaws, but is still better than most of the crap on tv today (lost and bsg notwithstanding). Most people want to blame the degradation of the show on Duchovny leaving, or that the show had just worn itself out. But after watching hour upon hour, I have a different theory. Near the end of season 6, Carter and Co. made an excellent episode called Monday, which was kind of like the x-files mashed up with groundhog's day. Great episode. I remember watching the teaser stoned in college, mouth agape at having witnessed Mulder and Scully's apparent demise by explosion. But they did something on that episode which they had never done before, which is put our favorite agents into an incident that had nothing to do with an x-file. And here's where they screwed the pooch, because after this ep, Carter and Assoc. started using this formula more and more, to the point where Mulder and Scully (and Scully and Doggett) weren't actually involved in the episode, they would just constantly be 2 steps behind the action, commenting on it like a goddamned Greek chorus. The reason the best episodes scared and intrigued us so well was because the action that took place actually happened to our heroes, who we cared about, and not the stupid fucking snake handlers, or the high school kids who could run fast, or Chuck who came to fuck and his brother with the x-ray eyes. Here's hoping that they have not fallen into the same trap with the new movie.
That being said, I've already jerked it twice, just to the idea of the movie coming out.
Thanks for your time and patience, those of you who made it this far...

I used to be madly in love w/XF back in the day. In the early years, it was one of the most imaginative shows on the air. But the crapfest that was season 9 pretty much killed it for me. Barely coherent finale, Scully going from strong character to pining for Mulder and crying almost every episode, and the "deaths" of the Lone Gunmen (a real smack to all the fans who campaigned for year 2 of the spinoff and downright MEAN to boot) just left me cold. <BR>--I don't think Duchovny leaving hurt the show that much. I found Robert Patrick to be a great actor and he did the best he could as Doggett. I would have loved to find out more about his character and <i>his</i> take on the Files, the Truth, etc. The problem was, the writers weren't sure what to do without Mulder. If they had concentrated more on the X-Files themselves and the new characters, not getting bogged down with syrupy 'shipper nonsense and New-Conspiracy-Lite, I think year 9 would have been much better... and just maybe I'd actually be looking forward to this movie, instead of yawning. <br>As it is, unless the Gunmen are back alive and well, I'm not remotely interested in another movie. And yeah, gotta have Skinner in it too. <BR>
If my views make me a non-person hater... :shrugs: so be it. Oh, EvilGeek1? The Bermuda Triangle ep was actually named "Triangle." (Not bad for someone who hasn't watched since the finale, huh? Oh yeah, I'm a geek. But I enjoy it.)

It really is. For me it flat out kills every other show right now. This years arc is awesome. I still watch it with my former roommate and lots of beers. It's a hoot. I even like that it's not super popular, this way they can do whatever the fuck they want with the characters. And they usually do. (see Season 2 supporting cast)

... isn't sitting on his ass. If you kept up with him at all you'd know that he's working hard on Dollhouse with Eliza Dushku, as well as Buffy Season 8 comics, which incidentally, rock harder with each issue.
And Buffy ain't no "teeny-bopper" show. Get past the title, idjit.

and am really looking forward to this.
I was totally in love with Scully back then.
I saw GA in a play in London a few years back and she is indeed very attractive.
However, given her track record I think she would eat up most geeks and spit them out before they knew what had happened to them.
She seems to be pretty fickle and unstable where men are concerned.
I think she's a long way short of Scully.
It looks to me like Chris Carter is banking on this being the first of several movies. Which makes sense, because it's not like he's really done much else.

. . . other than X-Files, so I won't doubt her troubles getting back into character. But for DD to suggest he might have had the same problem is the funniest thought ever. All he's ever played, in anything, is Mulder. I love the guy though. For X-Files and his impersonation of Jeff Goldbloom on SNL. If you haven't seen that skit, you gotta find it. One of those celebrity jeopardy skits.

I’m surprised more people haven’t watched the show. It’s interesting, funny, well-written and Duchovny is hilarious as a brilliant but lazy writer making his way through the labyrinthine minutia of the publishing and filmmaking industries.

I was DEFINITELY a huge X-Files nerd back in the day . . . even went to a convention out in here in California that was held in an old military airplane hangar . . . had Mr. X and Mitch and everyone, absolutely fantastic.<p>I'm really curious to know where we're picking up from . . . are Mulder and Scully together? Where's the kid? Did they get divorced and are forced to team up again (which actually could make for some GREAT dynamics, and be true to the characters)? Or are we just gonna pick up from somewhere in S7?<p>I'm in all the way no matter what, but it'd be great if they DID bring a lot of people back . . . absolutely CSM and Krycheck, but also the Lone Gunmen if they can make it work, and of COURSE Skinner will be there.<p>This is EASILY my most-anticipated flick for the year!! I CAN'T WAIT!!

I may not be as excited as the rest of you about the movie, but I thought I should be fair to all the ladies out there.
David Duchovney looks damn good and always has. So even though it will take about 300 more posts to even it out, I thought I should make the guys on the board feel a little bit inadequate for good measure.
That is all.

1.bad blood is possibly the greatest episode of tv ever 2. Gillian Anderson is still superhot 3. Now I know they've dumped the mythology i can only say this is my must see of 2008 . Carter please don't screw this up. ( The first movie was actually pretty good)

For anyone to look that good after flying from an all night shoot. I mean most actresses need tons of makeup and stylists to appear in public. But you can't fake that natural beauty.
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I do remember Freakylinks, was into it and sad to see it go. There was actually a Supernatural episode that reminded me of that show, with some 'ghostbusters' and an urban legend monster made 'real' because of hits on a website. I enjoy Supernatural now and it's definitely the only thing on tv close to being an X-Files heir (Miracles would have been a good candidate, had it lasted). But things were pretty sketchy for Supernatural's first season or so, with some really weak writing. It did improve significantly and it's one of my favorites right now. It certainly hearkens back to a time when a network would let a shaky show with a good concept stick around so it can develop and become awesome over time. Just like X-Files, Buffy and Angel. Nowadays, most shows don't get that chance. Cough..Journeyman...Ahem.

First season is kinda "X-files"-lite, but it picks up pretty well after the midway point. Season 2 was a big step up, and the sadly truncated (due to the writers strike) third season has been flat out excellent. It really is the natural heir to the X-Files and Millennium. Although its tone is (generally) lighter, the unfolding "big" story-arc is as dark and heavy as in the Carter shows, and best of all actually develops... Its not just a cock-tease, where every week you are promised answers but only get more questions and layers of obfuscation.

"On February 21, 2008, a 2-hour full night event of the series, averaged 2.90 million viewers from 8-10 pm. The fresh episode aired at 9pm, scored 3.23 million viewers; Supernatural rose to its second largest audience of the season, and best among adults 18-34 (1.4/4 rating), women 18-34 (1.4/4) and men 18-34 (1.5/4). It was the third most watched show overall, and the most-watched scripted drama show on The CW that week.
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Please please please dont be stupid douches when the leaks are revealed about who is and isn't in this movie. I know you guys like to play stupid douchebags in your update titles, but just dont blow this movie for people. There are some seriously surprising cameos in this one (from what I'm hearing), and so help me god if you pull one of those stupid 'too clever for its own good' update titles that spoils them, I will set the armies of Anonymous all over this domain.

If Frank Black _IS_ in the movie, you wont even have to read the update. Somebody at this site will write "A Black Day for X-Files 2" as a title, and then in a fit of irony, will attach a spoiler tag to the article.<p>
stupid douches.

The return of Cigarette Smoking Man!!!
Carter: “We are keeping a secret and I think you’ll all appreciate we are… about who all is going to appear in the movie, besides David and Gillian, of course… So, I’ll just say to you… nobody’s really ever dead in The X-Files.”

That's how I like to describe the X-Files. Never in my life had I actually been anticipating a week by week show, but the XF had some of the most intense cliffhangers. Also, remember that the show was saved by the net audience and didn't really get "popular" until it's move to Sunday night. I also would like to think that it made the studios look at sci-fi as marketable again. Everyone always talks about the best eps being Tooms or Humbug or Small Potatoes, but even episodes like Pusher (a classic for sure and probably one of the most shocking endings)endure after all these years.
Anyone remember the ep in either season 5 or 6 with the photographer that took pictures of people that would die (it was Scully-centric).

Not one person asked about Mulder and Scully's son. The little man has got to have some involvement in the sequel surely. For years Carter told us Mulder and Scully would never get cosy. This will have an ending which will have fans begging for more. Carter has spent six years thinking this up.